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I used to think I was alone
here within myself
alone in my struggle to be
who
I thought
I ought
to be . . .
Shitty Shame
Shame is shit
From toddlerhood we are taught
to hold it, control it, to flush it into oblivion
Yet, try as we might
we are never free of it . . .
A Heart Story
My heart’s wound is an old old story /
It chatters in the background day and night . . .
Elegy for the Good Little Girl
Let us remember and lay to rest
a creature so compliant
that she took the rules
and swallowed them whole
creating her own iron maiden
Beginnings, Part 2
Posted on January 1, 2020
I wrote that “For Celeste” poem in 2012 when I was in the middle of a health crisis that had set me on a path of desperately seeking a new way of living, a new way of understanding and treating myself, and deeper healing of the trauma and deprivation of my childhood. I had been […]
Beginnings, Part 1
Posted on January 1, 2020
For Celeste
I see you, though you try to hide
Blending into the wall
Daughter of a defective mother …
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